Memories

This book is an autobiography of Fannie Beers, a Connecticut native who married a southerner while he was a Yale student and developed a deep affection for the land and its people. When the Civil War began, her husband joined the Confederate Army, and Fannie returned to her Northern family with one child and another on the way. However, her support for the Southern cause made her position in the North untenable, so she joined her husband and worked as a dedicated nurse with Confederate forces in Virginia, Georgia, and Alabama. Eventually, she became a matron at a field hospital and earned the nickname, "The Florence Nightingale of the South" due to her high regard and commitment to her work.